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Phil and Lisa Williams Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Phil and Lisa Williams Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$29kHealth$28kEducation$23kPublic Benefit$13kArts & Culture$9kScience & Tech$5kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$10,000
US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,800
TURNING POINT USA$3,000
HONORING VETERANS LEGACIES$2,064
LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION$2,000
1819 NEWS$2,000
GRAMI$1,500
VILLAGE OF PROMISE$1,000
TURNING POINT USA AT UNIVERISITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE$1,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$91k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$91k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

36%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +32%
  • SS
    STILL SERVING VETERANS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
  • US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • US
    US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PD
    PARKINSONS DYNAMICSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +227%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Harvest Volunteer Fire Dept

To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Madison County Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc

Construct and maintain a memorial in honor of the veterans of madison county, alabama that will include recognition of the medals of honor recipients. it will reinforce the civil and military relationship in madison county and the city of…

Arts & Culture
4
Department of Alabama Amvets Inc

Assistance to veterans especially in alabama

Public Benefit
5
Alabama Veterans Museum & Archives

Education-military history

Arts & Culture
6
Madison County Veterans Committee Inc

Provide honor guard services for fallen veterans. provide emergency funds to veterans for rent and utilities. provide assistanct to veterans and families to obain va benefits.

Arts & Culture
7
Guntersvill Historical Society Inc

Non Profit Museum

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8
Department of Alabama Veterans of

Provide a place for veterans and their families to obtain fellowship; provide military flags, flowers and supplies for schools, communities and funerals; provide assistance for veterans

Public Benefit
9
Alabama Center of Military History

The alabama center of military history operates the us veterans memorial museum, open to the public wednesday - saturday to honor all veterans of the us armed forces and contains exhibits from the revolutionary war to today. the museum…

Arts & Culture
10
Hire Heroes Usa Inc

Hire heroes usa empowers u.s. military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, hire heroes usa's services are provided at no cost to the client.

Education
11
Harrison County Fire and Rescue

Provide training for fire and rescue mem

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Diabetic Clinic of Mobile Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cure Diabetes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20,000 · OtherTULANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINEHONORED LEGACIES FOR VETERANS: $6,500 · OtherHONORED LEGACIES FOR VETERANS1819 NEWS: $6,000 · Other1819 NEWSUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER: $5,000 · OtherUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRAMI: $4,500 · OtherGRAMITURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 · OtherAUM FOUNDATION: $2,400 · Other+12 more: $15,351 · Other+12 moreTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $21,311 · EducationTHE LIBERTY LEARNI…STILL SERVING VETERANS: $11,000 · Public BenefitSTILL SERVING VETE…HONORING VETERAN LEGACIES: $9,764 · Public BenefitHONORING VETERAN L…US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,800 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Human ServicesPARKINSONS DYNAMICS: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCommunity Foundation of Greater Huntsville: $4,750 · PhilanthropyCURE DIABETES INC: $2,000 · HealthAIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $1,000 · Health
Other$67,751Education$21,311Public Benefit$20,764Human Services$6,800Recreation & Sports$5,000Philanthropy$4,750Health$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $21,311 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHONORING VETERAN LEGACIES: $9,764 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSONS DYNAMICS: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Greater Huntsville: $4,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE DIABETES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHuntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMIN ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONROVIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Huntsville Humane Society Inc: $551 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …The Daniel Foundation…Wallace E Kirkpatrick…The I3 Cares Foundati…The Jane K Lowe Chari…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Phil and Lisa Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phil and Lisa Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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